RE: Evolution
May 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2012 at 6:24 pm by Abishalom.)
(May 1, 2012 at 12:51 am)FallentoReason Wrote:Yeah the equation bears his name, but I assure you that he (nor any Greek) came up with it. I am not going to sit here and and act like the Greeks contributed absolutely nothing to society. My main point is that if it weren't for the Christian worldview science would be totally different today. Science to the Greeks was more speculation than actual fact. Their philosophy was postulate many ideas and never test them, which consisted of circular reasoning to validate the claims. It was the Greek worldview that dominated the west for many centuries. That all changed when the Christian worldview became dominant in the west. Otherwise, we might still believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Of course there are still some Greek philosophical views hidden in certain parts of today's science (we're discussing one of them on this thread).Abishalom Wrote:They got got their mathematics from the Egyptians who got their mathematics from the Babylonians (so technically they really didn't give us that either). So essentially all they really contributed to society was mindless drivel that became standard doctrine of the western world for centuries prior to the Christian worldview dominance.I wasn't talking about the origins of maths. I meant things like the Pythagorean Theorem. Most of what gets taught at university isn't anything new but was developed by the Greeks.